Film Review: Ali’s Wedding (2017)
bySeeing our own stories on screen is always reassuring. There’s a sense that someone is listening, but also that our own people are ‘making…
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Film Review: Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
byPicking up eighteen months after the events of the last season, the movie adaptation of ABC series Dance Academy (2010-2013) sees Tara (Xenia Goodwin)…
Film Review: A Few Less Men (2017)
byThe nottly anticipated follow-up to 2011 British-Australian co-production and terribly flat, worn-out “comedy” trying desperately to cash in on the success of both the…
Film Review: Jasper Jones (2017)
byIn 2009 Fremantle based writer Craig Silvey released the novel Jasper Jones and it quickly became a hit with critics and readers alike. In…
Film Review: The Family (2016)
byWhen much of our media is dominated by fad and ‘false news’, it is quite interesting to see a film about a truly false…
Film Review: Lion (2016)
byMany will be familiar with Saroo Brierley’s story, having previously been covered some years back by 60 Minutes. Now it gets the big screen treatment in…
Film Review: Ella (2016)
byNot to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul Verhoeven which is out in cinemas at the same…
Film Review: Boys in the Trees (2016)
byWhile Boys in the Trees is certainly very stylish, this film leaves a lot to be desired in the narrative stakes. Solid performances, lush…
Film review: Broke (2016)
by‘How the mighty have fallen’, when a footballer errs and winds up a disgrace. For Australians, to see their heroes of the field fall…
Film Review: Be Here Now: The Andy Whitfield Story (2015)
byAndy Whitfield and his wife Vashti have been together for thirteen years, married for ten, and are enjoying the perks of Andy’s success as…